Quebecois director Denis Villenueve caught everyone's attention with the incredible Incendies in 2010, garnering a Best Foreign Language film Oscar nomination and a fistful of other awards in the process. His back catalogue also includes the terrifying true-crime drama Polytechnique, and now we get our first glimpse of the director's Hollywood debut, Prisoners - which boasts an impressive cast including Hugh Jackman, Jack Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Viola Davis and Paul Dano.

Jackman plays the father of a little girl who goes missing, but when local cop Gyllenhaal releases Dano's prime suspect due to a lack of evidence, he takes the law into his own hands, going all vigilante on the guy.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this first trailer for Prisoners, which is scheduled for release in the USA in September, shows us quite a lot of the film's story arc, but it also promises plenty of gloomy wintry neighbourhoods, tense confrontations and a hell of a lot of shouting. Judging from the heavyweight line-up, Warner Bros is clearly positioning the film as an early awards contender, with performance nods clearly high on the agenda.

"His back catalogue also includes the terrifying true-crime drama Polytechnique, and now we get our first glimpse of the director's Hollywood debut, Prisoners - which boasts an impressive cast including Hugh Jackman, Jack Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Viola Davis and Paul Dano."

Polytechnique(2009), I liked that one, and he has a very good cast in this one.

How Denis Villenueve will deal with this material, shall be interesting to see.Thanks for the trailer, Mr Marsh.

darrenjh

Man, wouldn't it suck if the daughters turned out to be hiding somewhere and the Paul Dano character just made shit up? oooooohhhhh.

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